On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 22:53:10 -0700, John Robertson
wrote:

On 2018/10/07 7:34 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 21:36:29 -0400, bitrex wrote:

On 10/07/2018 12:08 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
Hi all,

I just fixed up this classic Tek 466 scope I've been meaning to get
around to sorting out for the last few years. As you can see, my
soldering is atrocious. I've been soldering this type of circuitry for 50
years and never got any better at it in all that time. When it comes to
soldering and part-placement, I suck donkey dick!
Check it out and enjoy at my expense:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/128859...in/dateposted-
public/

and...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/128859...in/dateposted-
public/


As you can see, the "world's worst" tag was no exaggeration!




Eh. This was the soldering job in a commercially-sold SMPS bench power
supply from an Amazon.com reseller, IIRC, this was how it looked when it
left the mfgr, I took this photo immediately after opening the enclosure
and pulling the PCB (it had stopped working! can you believe it)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/65km6pbq8wzch54/IMG_20171005_104357775.jpg?dl=0

This is pretty bad. The box doesn't work.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cja04ohlsw...lenco.zip?dl=0




You bought that NEW? Or was it second/third/fifth hand?

New, from Amazon. It arrived that way. I opened it because it didn't
work right.


It looks like an idiot tried to modify it. I have trouble imagining a
legitimate company letting something that hacked out for sale.

It's Chinese.


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John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics